But if you dilute the bacteria on your plates, cutlery, and cutting board nicely with water, and then wipe them over with a kitchen sponge before putting them away, you may as well have licked them clean with your tongue. Kitchen sponges offer the perfect home for any passing microbe — nice and warm, moist, and full of food. Anyone looking at a kitchen sponge under the microscope for the first time usually wants to curl up on the floor in the foetal position, rocking back and forth in disgust. Kitchen sponges should only be used for cleaning the worst of the dirt off — plates, cutlery, and so
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